NEWSLETTER

JANUARY 2021

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Page 2 of 73 WAKO CALENDAR 2021 - CORRECTIONS

WAKO CALENDAR 2021 Revision / edition 29-91-2021 January 2021 Golden Glove Cancelled 22 24 (WAKO European Cup) February 2021 International kickboxing cup Cancelled 3 7 „India Open“ 2021

Postponed 5 7 Athens Challenge Greece 2nd International Open Postponed 24 28 Kickboxing Tournament Jordan (K-1, FC, PF, LC) and Referee Seminar March 2021 Irish Open International 2021 Cancelled 4 7 (WAKO World Cup) Ireland (Official WAKO Referee Worlds/Europeans) Serbian Open B 19 21 (WAKO European Cup) The On hold 26 28 Yokoso Dutch Open 2021 April 2021 6th International Turkish Open A 8 11 (WAKO European Cup)

B 24 25 Point Fighting Cup 2021 Italy

2 C 30 Slovak Open Slovakia May May 2021 C 14 16 Latvia Open Latvia

B 20 22 AmeriKick Internationals USA

Karlovac Open B 28 30 (WAKO European Cup) June 2021 25th Bestfighter 2021 WAKO 10 13 (WAKO World Cup ) Italy World Cup (Official WAKO Referee Worlds/Europeans) h

Page 3 of 73 Provisionally CONFIRMED TOURNAMENTS 2021

22nd - 24th January 2021: GOLDEN GLOVE (WAKO European Cup), Italy - CANCELLED 3rd - 7th February 2021: 2nd INDIAN OPEN CUP, New Delhi, India - CANCELLED TBD: ATHENS CHALLENGE, Athens, Greece - POSTPONED March 2021: WAKO IF DEVELOPMENT WORKSHOP FOR NFs, Panama 4th - 7th March 2021: IRISH OPEN (WAKO World Cup), Dublin, Ireland - CANCELLED 19th - 21st March 2021: SERBIAN OPEN 2021 (WAKO European Cup), Belgrade Serbia 27th - 28th March 2021: YOKOSO DUTCH OPEN, Amsterdam, The Netherlands - ON HOLD 8th - 11th April 2021: 6th TURKISH OPEN (WAKO European Cup), Antalya, Turkey 24th - 25th April 2021: POINT FIGHTING CUP, Castellanza, Italy 30th April - 2nd May 2021: SLOVAK OPEN 2021, Bratislava, Slovakia 20th - 22nd May 2021: AMERIKICK INTRERNATIONALS, Atlantic City, USA 21st-30th May 2021 6th ASIAN INDOR AND MARTIAL ARTS GAMES (AIMAG), Bangkok /Pattaya, - POSTPONED TO 2022 28th - 30th May 2021: KARLOVAC OPEN 2021 (WAKO European Cup), Karlovac, Croatia June 2021: WAKO IF DEVELOPMENT WORKSHOP FOR NFs, 10th - 13th June 2021: BESTFIGHTER (WAKO World Cup), Rimini, Italy 1st - 4th July 2021: THE AUSTRIAN CLASSICS (WAKO World Cup), Innsbruck, Austria 23rd - 27th July 2021: EUROPEAN UNIVERSITY GAMES, Belgrade, Serbia 13th - 22nd August 2021: WAKO CADETS & JUNIORS EUROPEAN CHAMPIONSHIPS, Gyor, Hun 16th - 19th September 2021: HUNGARIAN WORLD CUP (WAKO World Cup), Budapest, Hungary 21st - 26th September 2021: RUSSIAN OPEN 2021 (WAKO World Cup), Moscow, 10th - 19th September 2021: 5th ISLAMIC SOLIDARITY GAMES, Konya, Turkey 26th – 27th September 2021: FLANDERS INTERNATIONAL KICKBOXING CUP, Beveren, Belgium 5th – 14th November 2021: WAKO SENIOR & MASTER WORLD CHAMPIONSHIPS, Moscow, Russia

THE - 2022.

7th - 17th July 2022: WORLD GAMES, Birmingham (Alabama), USA

All information about THE WORLD GAMES 2022 - www.twg2022.com

FUTURE ACTIVITIES

2022 Cadets & Juniors WC (All disciplines) in Belgrade; Serbia

2022 Senior EC (All disciplines) in Antalya, Turkey;

2023 Cadets & Juniors EC (All Disciplines), Izmir, Turkey;

2023 Senior WC (All Disciplines), Dublin, Ireland

2023 June 21.-July 2. , Krakow,

2023 July 17.-20. EUSA Combat Games, Zagreb Croatia

2024 Cadets & Juniors WC (All disciplines) in Hungary

2024 EUSA Games, Hungary

2024 Senior EC (All disciplines), Athens, Greece

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WAKO IF Board Meeting

WAKO IF Board Meeting January, 30h

Topics on Agenda:

2. Update on WAKO Events 2021 (Romeo) 19. Supporting the inclusion of Kickboxing in 3. WAKO Continental Championships 2021 the following continental games a. Europe, b. Asia, c. Africa, d. Oceania, e. Pan AM A Class 4. WAKO Continental GA Update i. / ii. / iii. 5. WAKO Continental Plan 2021 Oceania Games / iv. 6. Covid Update - Covid survey B Class 7. Medical Rules Approval i. / 8. Professional Kickboxing Gala (Non WAKO Pro) ii. Military Games / 9. Collection and receipt of WAKO Continental iii. / documents iv. 10. Update on WAKO Development Seminars 20. WAKO IF/Europe Main Calendar events a. Pan AM (Paulo) / b. Asia (Singapore) (Roy) a. 2021 Senior Worlds, Moscow, Russia 11. Ethical Committee report (Kaan) b. 2021 Junior / Cadet Europeans, Gyor, Hun 12. Legal Committee Update c. 2022 Junior / Cadet Worlds, Belgrade, Serbia 13. Continents 14. WAKO IF Future Focus d. 2022 Senior Europeans, Turkey 15. Membership System Adoption report (Romeo) e. 2023 Senior Worlds, Dublin, Ireland 16. Development projects update (Espen) f. 2023 Junior / Cadet Europeans, Izmir, Turkey a. Athlete Corner App; b. GameChanger concept g. 2024 Junior / Cadet Worlds, Hungary 17. Anti-Doping Update (Gianlorenzo) h. 2024 Senior Europeans, Athens, Greece 18. Combat Games Update (Roy) i. 2025 Senior Worlds (Tender) j. 2025 Junior / Cadet Europeans (Tender) 21. AOB

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WAKO IF Committees' activities

Coach Committee

WAKO coaches Committee meeting January 23rd with the chairman Daimi Akin (Norway), Miodrag Jotic (Serbia), Dave Heffernan (Ireland), Istvan Kiraly (Hungary), Seda Duygu Aygun (Turkey), Gianfranco Rizzi (Italy), Essa Abu Nasser (Jordan), Junior Kistow (Trinidad and Tobago), Dev Barret (Great Britain), Nikos Memmos (Greece) making plans for the next 6 months. WAKO President Roy Baker attended and informed about the situation in WAKO.

WAKO President Mr. Roy Baker about the situation in WAKO and the future plans. - The president informed about WAKO´s current situation and about future activities, games and plans for WAKO. 1. Finalization of coaching licensing and accreditation. - Coaches licensing system is finished, Miodrag, Gianfranco and Daimi will have a last check on the test questions for the exams. 2. Development and delivery of coaching framework for kickboxing. - Here is the link with example which was sent by the president https://www.icce.ws/_assets/files/pc_icdf_booklet_2016.pdf Miodrag and Dave will develop draft for kickboxing. 3. Online coaching seminar dates and topics. - Istvan informed about sport data have made an infrastructure for virtual events together with Global Sport/ gym. he will send some information to the committee members. - Essa spoke about the successful seminar which was held for Arab countries where also Miodrag attended. - Nikos suggest to have the first seminar about coaches and athlete's behaviour and the situation in Wako. - Miodrag, Dave and Daimi will discuss and come up with a proposal for program for the first WAKO Online Coaches seminar and ask President Roy Baker and 1. Vice President Espen Lund to have an opening speech about WAKO future plans. - Date for the first seminar will be 13 of February at 1700. CET. Invitation should be sent by WAKO 4. Belt graduation system. - Dev, Gianfranco, Istvan Miodrag and Daimi will book a new meeting for development of the Belt Graduation system, we will include Mr. Nizar Taleb from Technical committee when we have agreed on the big lines for the system. - Dave suggested that Coaches Committee should have a person in the Technical committee, Daimi will discuss with the president and chairman of the technical committee

Ring Referee Committee

Ring Referee Seminar, January 31 2021.

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Ethical Committee

WAKO Ethical Comittee meeting was held on Monday January 25th with participation of Chairman Mr. Kaan Ozgur Kayici (Turkey) and members Mrs. Michaela Kovacova (Slovakia), Mr. Neville Wray (Great Britain), Mr. Brendan Dowling (Ireland) and Mr. Javier Dopico (). Agenda of the meeting was several complaints received by the Chairman.

Media Committee

WAKO Media Committee meeting today via Zoom about summary of the work in 2020 and plans for 2021, and with the President who joined the meeting with the energy to push things forward.

Medical Committee

Medical Committee held meeting, January 31, they discussed about the aims of our committee at short, medium and also long term. Goals in the short term are: 1) to actively work on the COVID-19 protocol; 2) to have a virtual medical seminar on “Body weight management in kickboxing” (this seminar will be held on March 27); 3) to give support to the WAKO Newsletter with regular short articles on anti-doping.

Medium and long term goals will be to have some research on injury epidemiology and possibly on other The participants were: Massimiliano Bianco (ITA), Gianlorenzo aspects (concussion, anti-doping), to Daniele (ITA), Danielle Nitteroi Ribeiro (BRA), Vitale Monte have educational projects targeted to (IZA), Andreas Lodrup (NOR), Suzana Milutinovic (SRB), athletes and coaches, to organize a Andreas Angelopoulos (GRE), Mehmet Derya Dincer (TUR). WAKO Medical Seminar (in presence, when possible) and finally to start a licensing system for doctors.

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Women in Sport Committee

WAKO Women in sport Committee at the meeting January 24th, discussed promoting more women in kickboxing, in refereeing and in sport politics. The focus is preparation of the II WAKO Women in sport Conference with significant lecturers which will contribute to this goals.

Interesting proposals to WAKO Board:

These proposals provide a path for making all WAKO members more aware of and responsive to the perspectives, interests and needs of women in WAKO. The goal is not just increasing the number of women in leadership positions in WAKO, but understanding how formal and informal policies, practices and procedures across committees can reinforce gender inequalities and gender-based stereotypes and what can be done to enable gender equality.

The suggested modalities to implement the above proposals are as follows. 1. To create a transparent system of appointing judges/referees to WAKO events, taking into account gender parity. The recommendation is to entrust the Referee Committee to study and evaluate the most appropriate modalities for the implementation of the principles of gender parity in the appointment of the referees/judges. The Referee Committee should liaise with the WAKO Women in Sport Committee in order to define the main principles and guidelines to be adopted by WAKO. The proposals prepared by the WAKO Referee Committee in collaboration with the WAKO Women in Sport Committee would then be submitted to the attention of WAKO Legal Committee for final review and adoption by the Board of Directors. 2. To check which WAKO Members have women committees in their federations that can provide training on gender issues, gender stereotypes and gender barriers that women face. The proposal is to submit to the WAKO Members the request to provide information on the existence and composition of the women committee in their respective federations and on the possibility for the federation (or WAKO itself) to provide training on gender issue, gender stereotype and gender barriers. 3. To grant an award to the WAKO member which has the largest number of women in its composition at the WAKO Championships. The suggestion is that the WAKO Board of Director resolves to create a special award for the WAKO member that has the largest number of women in its team participating to a WAKO championship. 4. To achieve more women in WAKO committees by setting a target of 30% in next elections or WAKO Board decisions. The proposal is based on the analysis of the current situation. The proposal for the Board of Directors is to evaluate the opportunity to amend the By-laws by inserting the target of 30% of participation of women in the relevant Committees. 5. To train female coaches in countries where the participation in sport is conditioned by training by persons of the same sex. The proposal is to discuss with the WAKO Coaching Committee the possibility to organize training for female coaches particularly in specific countries.

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Peace and Sport

At the time, we felt the need to turn our social responsibility strategy into action in the field. But to do that, we were looking for a partner with the necessary expertise and logistics. We met Joël Bouzou. My president at WAKO and I attended Peace and Sport’s presentation at SportAccord. There was no doubt, for him or for me, that we should work with them.

What followed quickly proved us right. We signed a cooperation agreement with Peace and Sport. It was about the “Live Together” program, located in the Za’atari refugee camp for Syrians in Jordan. WAKO relies on the strong and structured national kickboxing federation in Jordan. We put it to work. Today, I can say that our collaboration is a success. On site, we observed the daily reality of a refugee camp, we saw all the work accomplished and the progress made. We saw the enthusiasm in the eyes of people practicing kickboxing. We appreciated the commitment of the coaches and educators. We realized all that young people and women expect from this physical activity that promotes physical and mental well-being and encourages social cohesion, dialogue and inclusion. As well as being an invaluable contribution to the refugees living in Za’atari, the “Live Together” program also gives meaning to WAKO’s firm commitment to using sport to help build a better world.

The success of a program is also measured by its stakeholders. Over the past two years, four kickboxing world champions have travelled to Za’atari at our request. They came back enriched by the experience and in a hurry to repeat it. Since then, we have been approached by a large number of coaches and athletes who also wish to play their part in the Jordanian camp. We met Ali, a Syrian refugee in Za’atari, and we trained him to be a kickboxing coach. Last year we invited him to the world championships in Antalya, Turkey. He was one of WAKO’s guests of honour. Ali had never visited a country other than and Jordan. He had never taken a plane. He had never even eaten fish or swum in the sea. At the end of the World Championships, he received the fair play trophy. For him, the experience was unforgettable.

The COVID-19 pandemic has slowed down our plans. But there was never any question of us giving up our actions, especially the “Live Together” program developed with Peace and Sport in Jordan. We want to get even more involved in actions in the field, to help people with disabilities, refugees, young school dropouts, and girls and women who have difficulty accessing sport. We have projects in Africa, in collaboration with UNESCO. We are also looking at South America. In any case, we will need a partner, similar to Peace and Sport, and a solid base in the country. Alone, we lack strength. Together, anything is possible.”

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WAKO ANTIDOPING COVER PAGE

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Antidoping

The World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) reminds stakeholders that, effective from 1.1.2021, the 2021 World Anti-Doping Code (Code); the following International Standards (Standards); and, the Athletes’ Anti-Doping Rights Act (Act) have entered into force.

The 2021 Code, which follows on from previous versions that entered into effect in 2004, 2009 and 2015, includes a number of important changes to global anti-doping policies, rules and regulations within Anti- Doping Organizations (ADOs) around the world. LINK TO ARTICLE Links to download relevant standards:

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Antidoping

Therapeutic Use Exemptions (TUE) Part 1

What is a TUE? Therapeutic Use Exceptions, refers to the consumption of medicines or therapeutic methods that are part of the world anti-doping code prohibited list, necessary for the treatment of diseases, or health conditions of an athlete, previously informed, validated by a medical committee and exceptionally authorized without prejudice in antidoping control.

TUEs are only granted by Anti-Doping Organizations (ADOs) - IFs, NADOs and Major Event Organizers (MEOs) - following a robust review process that is defined in the ISTUE; and, evaluation by three physicians specialized in sports medicine and/or other relevant specialties. Granted TUEs are subject to further evaluation by the relevant ADOs and WADA.

Why it is necessary? Sports in general has the power of inclusion, and the objective of anti-doping control is to bring equality to competitive conditions to all athletes. If the athlete needs a medicine, or a therapeutic method to treat health problems and it is in the prohibited list, they have the right to maintain the treatment without any prejudice in the anti- doping control, with the prior formalization of the TUE to compete, at the same level, with others athletes.

How to obtain it? The TUE application form is available on the WADA website. It must be completed by the physician who indicated the treatment for the athlete justifying the use of the medicine, its dosage, including medical evidence. WADA also provides a series of Therapeutic Use Exemptions check list to give orientation and support to athletes, their physicians and anti-doping organizations. The form is evaluated by the Therapeutic Exemption Committee, based on the World Anti-doping Code and the International Standard for TUE (ISTUE), who will judge each case and give the best deliberation.

Dr. Danielle Niteroi Ribeiro - Member of WAKO Medical, Health and Antidoping Committee

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New WAKO Gold Sponsor

CENTURY Martial Arts becomes Golden sponsor and product partner of the WAKO! The new, long-term collaboration with such global supplier of martial arts equipment and accessories has matched two martial arts brands CENTURY and WAKO as perfect partners. “From Champions to You” developed as the new line of products targetly intended for Kickboxing with large selection of high quality martial arts articles and friendly customers service, makes CENTURY a significant WAKO partner in the future. www.centurymartialarts.com

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WAKO EUROPE

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Austria

WORKSHOP - Competition Preparation 2021 On January 16-17 the workshop "Competition preparation 2021 Ring" of the ÖBFK took place at BSFZ Schielleiten

In compliance with the ÖBFK prevention concept, including test for top athletes,

Federal Trainer Mag was able to do so. Ivan Kulev, sports director-ring Rainer Gerdenitsch and Franz Haberl welcomed seven athletes of the ÖBFK to Styria.

The content of the workshop was the testing and further development of the basic and special skills / skills according to the ÖBFK training plan recommendation for the 4 and 5 of the 1st period of the competition season.

WORKSHOP competition preparation 2021

From 22.01. to 24.01. the workshops ′′ "Competition preparation 2021" of the Tatami athletes of the Öbfk Austria took place at 22.01.

In compliance with the ÖBFK prevention concept, the federal trainers Mag. Ivan Kulev or Michael Gerdenitsch and her coaching team welcome a total of 23 negatively tested

ÖBFK top athletes of the general class and the offspring in Faak am See under winter external conditions in Carinthia.

The main focus of the workshops was physical testing and the development of the basic and special skills / skills according to the ÖBFK training plan recommendation for the Mesocycles 4 and 5 of the 1st period of the competition season 2021.

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Bosnia and Herzegovina

COACHING SEMINAR 3O-31.01.2021. Hotel Hollywood Sarajevo

Kickboxing Association of Bosnia and Herzegovinaorganized educational seminar

It was a two-day seminar for licensing coaches for members of our national federation.

The seminar was held on 30-31. January 2021.

The lecturers at the seminar were eminent experts from selected teaching areas. The topics of the seminar were:

1. Functional anatomy and physiology of sport, dr.sci. Eldan Kapur 2. Psychomotor skills in sports and

Conditioning in kickboxing, dr.sci. Muris Đug 3. Sports training theory, dr.sci.Milan Gužvica 4. Kickbox performance planning and programming model, dr.sci. Safet Kapo 5. Kixboxing rules / changes, mr. Nedjo Bratic, President of the Referee Commission of the Federation

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Bulgaria

The sports kickboxing calendar for 2021 is enriched with four new tournaments.

On the weekend of May 7-9 will be held a competition in the discipline of "low kick" in the town of Byala (Rousse region), and on August 21 - tournament "Young Fighters Kickboxing" in Pazardzhik Domakin in two tournaments will be Sofia, respectively on October 10 and 18 December.

NATIONAL CHAMPIONSHIPS March 5-07 - DP Low Kick Shumen - Shumen April 23-25 - DP Full Contact and K1 - Pazardzhik

May 14-16 - Point fighting, Light Contact and Kick light - Panagyurishte September 03-05 - Ful Contact and Muay Thai - Kavarna October 01-03 - Low Kick State Enterprise - Varna October 22-24 - DP K1, Point fighting, Light Contact, Kick light - Burgas

INTERNATIONAL COMPETITIONS May 28-30 - European Cup in Karlovac - all styles June 10-13 - World Cup "Best Fighter" - Rimini (Italy) July 01-04 - World Cup "Austria Classics" - all styles - Innsbruck (Austria) 23 -27 July - European University Games - Point fighting, Kick light, Full Contact and K1 - Belgrade (Serbia) August 13-22 - European Championship Youth and Children - All Styles - Gyor (Hungary) September 16-19 - World Cup in Hungary - all styles - Budapest (Hungary) November 05-14 - Men's and Women's World Championships - all styles - Moscow (Russia)

OTHER TOURNAMENTS 07-09 May - (Rousse Region) - Kickboxing tournament Byala - "low kick" style June 11-13 - Kozloduy - International Kickboxing Tournament and Gala Evening August 21 - Young Fighters Kickboxing Tournament - Pazardzhik October 10 - Sofia - Kickboxing tournament in all styles of tatami December 18 - Sofia - Kickboxing tournament in all styles of tatami

VLADIMIR VALEV - PITBULL - New Bulgarian national coach

Bulgarian Konfederation of Kickboxing and Muay Thai start 2021 with changes in the coaching staff of the national kickboxing team.

President Galin Dimov introduced new main selector for upcoming season Vladimir Valev - Pitbull

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Bulgaria

Some of the best kickboxers in Bulgaria took part in a seminar with K1 legend Peter Arts.

The star of world kickboxing arrived in Sofia to participate in the newest training camp of the Professional League of the World Kyokushin Union. It was held on January 22, 23 and 24 in the Arena Armeec hall in Sofia under strict measures related to limiting the spread of COVID-19 in the country.

Peter Arts leaded the master class. His program currently included 5 training sessions, which is dedicated to the rules of the Profile of the World Kyokushin Union (KWU International Professional League) and include many elements of kickboxing, Muay Thai, Kyokushin and full contact, according to colleagues from Boec.bg. The initiator of the creation of the attractive regulations, which revives the authentic rules of Kyokushin since its inception, is the chairman of the Shihan League Ivo Kamenov, who is also chairman of the National Martial Arts Association in Bulgaria.

The master class at Arena Armeec is the first in a series to be held in 2021. It is designed for professional athletes and is conducted in accordance with all security and disinfection measures. All trainers and participants were subjected to 2 mandatory PCR tests before being admitted to the practices.

Finland

JENNA PUURUNEN SELECTED AS THE BEST ATHLETE IN HER SPORT IN 2020 January 13. 2021

The Sports Journalists Association’s Best Athletes 2020 Selections have been announced today. Jenna Puurunen from Järvenpää Ringing Bears was chosen as the best in kickboxing.

Jenna's latest achievement is the WAKO PRO World Championship title (FC -65 kg) grabbed in November 2020. Jenna is also the reigning amateur world champion (FC -65 kg).

The Association of Sports Journalists has been selecting the best athletes in the sport since 1946. At first, only a few species were involved, but the range of species has steadily expanded over the years. This year, the best of its kind was named in 70 different species. The list of the selected can be found on the website of the Association of Sports Journalists

The association congratulates Jenna and the Järvenpää Ring Bear bear team!

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Finland

WAKO 2021 rule webinar

Finnish Kickboxing Association

Saturday 16.1.2021 at 16:00 - 18:30

The board of the Finnish Kickboxing Association confirmed on 24 January at its meeting, updates to the association's competition guide, the competition organizer's guide and the rules of judging. • The competition guide takes into account, in particular, the issues brought by WAKO's new match rules, as well as the rules of the game for knockouts outside kickboxing competitions. • In addition to the wording check, the competition organizer's guide states, for example, that it is the responsibility of the competition organizer to ensure that the chief judge of the competitions is from the jury of the federation no later than one month before the competitions. In the future, competition permits must be applied for using the form found on the association's website. The form will be introduced as soon as possible. • The rules of judging specify clarifications regarding impartiality and non-disclosure. The purpose of the clarifications is to ensure that, objectively speaking, impartiality could not have been compromised.

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France

Firstly, the French Federation of KickBoxing sends all its wishes to its fellow international federations.

Formations :

Such as each month, the federation organised formations to become qualified trainers. Those courses took place in several places across : Aquitaine, Ile-de-France, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes and Provence-Alpes Côtes d’Azur.

6 formations were organised in January 2021. Four of them were federals and the other two had a professional goal. Around 150 people took the courses including 23 women.

Labeling :

Each January since 2018, some clubs are labeled and praised by the federation for two years according to their involvement. This action is split into four stages to compare clubs according to their commitment. The label begins at stage two stars to finish at the five stars’ stage. Various datas are taken into consideration such as the number of athletes within the club, its presence during federal workshops or if someone has graduated from the federal’s formations, to name some.

This year, up to 13 clubs are rewarded. This label lasts two years.

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Germany

Oliver Hahl will be new president

16.01.2021, the new president of WAKO was elected at the online annual general meeting of the Federal Federation Oliver Hahl.

Since Jürgen Schorn, former president, had announced his resignation to today, this office was a disposition. A vice president was also re-elected because Rudi Brunbauer provided his office. Frank Feuer reoccupying this one. Andreas Riem remains in office as WAKO President Roy Baker congratulates Oliver Hahl vice president, since this office was not and the new Board on the election and looks forward to available. future cooperation with the WAKO world federation and

further development of German kickboxing WAKO Germany would like to thank Jürgen

Schorn and Rudi Brunbauer for the presidency of the last six years and for the joint realization of the big dream, the inclusion in the DOSB.

Furthermore, WAKO Germany congratulates the two new candidates on their position and wishes success in achieving their goals.

The new board is actively supported by the new head office Diana Lingg.

GERMANY'S KICKBOXERS TRAIN TOGETHER

The HESSEN TRAINIERT GEMEINSAM campaign has been running successfully since the beginning of the 2nd lockdown. All interested kickboxers meet on January 28th for online training, which is instructed by different athletes / trainers on a weekly basis.

Since this campaign is also attracting interest in other regional associations, we want to expand it to the whole of Germany and expand it to two courses!

These courses are to be presented and instructed by well-known trainers and athletes who come from the disciplines PF / Al Amin Rmadan Erdogan Celik LK / forms and ring sports and who would like to take part! For the first two units we were able to win over the reigning world champion in the LK, Al Amin Rmadan, as well as Erdogan Celik, former vice world champion in the PF.

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Germany

A successful start!

The first training session of German Federation's new project GERMANY KICKBOXER TRAINING TOGETHER was a complete success. For both units we were able to inspire almost 100 participants! Our two speakers lived up to their reputation and made the participants sweat properly! The flair of the competition was clearly noticeable.

As the first speaker, the specialist from Pointfighting, Erdogan Celik, who finally passed the scepter to our light contact world champion Al Amin Rmadan after an hour of action-packed power, who then got everything out of the participants again.

We are looking forward to more great training

sessions with you! Stay tuned. (Text: K. Riem)

Great Britain

zoom squad session with over 200 participants who took part.

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Great Britain

Virtual Kickboxing for Young Minds

The pandemic is spreading, and there doesn’t seem any end to it. Not just in Britain but all over the world everyone is self isolating and being shut away in their homes, nowhere to go, no friends to see, nothing to do. Sometimes there seems no point to anything. It’s hard to keep the motivation going, especially for sporty types who are used to training with like-minded people in a happy vibrant place, in their exciting sport. Thankfully there is a vaccine now which is great news and to keep like minded sports fanatics going until things get better, the Cimac Superleague is presenting an exciting virtual kickboxing championships where you can show off your skills wherever you are in the world and support the amazing mental health charity called Young Minds.

The Cimac Superleague is a series of martial arts tournaments that anyone can enter to become the overall league champion. Due to COVID-19, however, the tournament has been unable to run and those who usually enter the league have been having withdrawal symptoms, so the Cimac Superleague organiser Neville Wray has come up with a temporary solution to keep both fans and competitors entertained and engaged.

In this special virtual Cimac Superleague tournament, martial arts competitors from many different styles will be showcasing their fighting skills on zoom. They will be judged by three referees who will watch two people on the screen at any one time. The person who demonstrates the best techniques will be awarded the win, which will put them into the next round.

The competitors will be judged in the following categories: Footwork and blitz: Demonstrating various footwork movements followed by any punching techniques. Shadow Sparring: Demonstrating kicks and punches against an imaginary opponent. Kicking Skills: The only category where there will be no punches involved. All the moves will be highlighting the various kicking techniques of the martial arts. Kickboxing Combinations: Competitors will put together kicking and punching moves in sets of four combinations.

Young Minds is a very special charity dedicated to making sure all young people can get the mental health support they need, when they need it, no matter what. It aims to stop young people's mental health reaching a crisis point and to make sure no young person feels alone with their mental health.

By entering the Cimac Superleague Virtual Championships, not only are you going to have a good time meeting up with friends you haven’t seen for long (virtually of course!), you may even make new ones and the impact you make to Young Minds will help every young person’s well being.

The Cimac Virtual Championships takes place on Sunday 7th February and the semi finals and finals are on Sunday 14th February. Registration closes on 1st February.

More details and the rules for the event can be found at www.superleaguevirtualopen.com

LINK TO PROMOTIONAL VIDEO

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Hungary

Ireland

On January 14th KBI and ITA held a seminar designed to support clubs making a sports capital and sports equipment application in the upcoming funding. This is designed to make competitors are aware of the scoring matric and ensure to make a successful application for much needed equipment.

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Ireland

17.01.2021

The Kickboxing Ireland Annual General Meeting just ended with an outstanding on-line attendance of over 45 clubs.

The elected officers on the Executive Committee for the year 2021 are:

President: Roy Baker Vice President: Martin Bannon Treasurer: Eanna Hughes Secretary: Martin McMahon Chief Referee: Karl Wilson IMAC Rep 1: Pierce McGeough

IMAC Rep 2: Richie Byrne HP Team Manager: Elaine Small National Ring Sport Coach: Jimmy Upton National Points Coach: Dave Heffernan National Light/Kick Coach: Des Leonard National Forms Coach: Eamon Lawlor PRO/Social Media: Ilija Salerno Membership Officer 1: Michelle Adebisi Membership Officer 2: Aine Conlon Development Officer: Jonathan McKenna

Director of Coaching: Jon Mackey Data Protection Officer: vacant

The Netherlands

Sarèl de Jong elected as "Dutch kickboxer of the year"

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The Netherlands

Yokoso Dutch Open 2021 ON HOLD!

Due to the Pandemic of Covid 19 and the new restrictions in The Netherlands, we will have to wait for permission the be able to continue with the Yokoso Dutch Open 2021. As only Top Athletes events are allowed at the moment, we are working on getting every thing in order to have a event this year. What we know at the moment, is that only Top Athletes can compete in events in The Netherlands, so if you are in the Top 10 of your country in your National Ranking of your country or in the Top 100 in the World Ranking, you will be allowed to compete in a Top Athlete event.

You will need an personal invitation of WAKO Nederland to be able to enter the country and compete in our event. Further there are rules about testing before you enter The Netherlands and also of your own country that you need to check.

All Beginners and categories till 14 years will be cancelled. Only Creative and Musical Forms will be allowed, all other Forms categories will be cancelled.

We will keep you up-to-date about the event. If you want to attend the YDO 2021 Limited edition, please sent us a private message on Facebook of email to [email protected]. This way we can look for solutions and check out the problems you will face for coming to the YDO2021. Preparation is everything!

We hope to see you in Amsterdam. When we get more information we will keep you posted. We will know more in 1 week. Yokoso Dutch Open Organizing Committee

Poland

Polski Związek Kickboxingu informs that the final stage of preparation for the release of the "Kickboxing Coach's Journal and Work Plan" has begun.

The most important part of this position will naturally be the annual training and competition plan. The log will also contain planning basics including targeted and specialized measures of kickboxing disciplines, coach code of ethics and kickboxers.

The journal is created by Dr Jan Harasymowicz and the president of PZKB Piotr Siegoczynski, part of the planning will be consulted with Thomas Mamulski and Krzysztof Kapron.

Of course the cover will be related to our sport.

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Preliminary dates for the 2021 PZKB league tournaments

January 31-31 Warshaw Grand - Warsaw February 13 Rympal on Fyrtl - Poznań February 20 Jaworznicka Kickboxing League - Jaworzno February 21 Warsaw Grand - Warsaw February 27 Battle of Warriors - Krakow March 21 Warsaw Grand - Warsaw March 26 Polish Championship K1 pro/am, Nowa Sol March 27 Polish Cup of the Polish Army and Uniformed Services, Kalisz April 9 Polish Championships KL - sen., jun., Kartuzy April 16 Polish Championships FC April 16 Jaworznicka Kickboxing League - Jaworzno April 18 Warsaw Grand - Warsaw April (date to be determined) - Battle of Warriors - Krakow May 1 K1 Style Polish Championships, Legnica May 7 Polish Cadet Championships (Junior) KL, Polish Junior Championships LC, Leszno May 14 Univ ersity Polish Championship May 15 Grybowska Kickboxing League - Gryb óww May 16 Warsaw Grand - Warsaw May 22 Polish Fighter Kids 6, Szczecin May 28 Polish Low kick championships for juniors and seniors, Mysłowice June 4 Battle of Warrior League, Krakow June 4 Cadet Polish Championsgips PF, LC, Bałtów June 5 Warsaw Grand for children - Warsaw June 10 Jaworznicka Kickboxing League - Jaworzno June 26 Grybowska Kickboxing League - Grybów June (date to be determined) - Battle of Warriors - C Krakow August 30 Grybowska Kickboxing League - Grybów September 12 Warsaw Grand and tournament during the FIWE-Fitness Trade Show Fair September 24 Polish Army and Uniformed Services Championship September 25 Grybowska Kickboxing League - Grybów September (date to be determined) - Battle of Warriors - Krakow October 1 Jaworznicka Kickboxing League - Jaworzno October 8 Polish PF, LC Championships - junior, senior, masters October 9 Warsaw K-1 Championship, junior, senior October 10 Warsaw Grand - Warsaw October 15 PZKB "Piaseczno Fight Night X" Gala, Piaseczno October 16 Polish Fighter Champion 1, Szczecin October 23 Grand Prix Pointfighting - Polish Open Cup of Polish PF junior cadets, senior (Youth) and juniors, Świdnik November 7 Warsaw Grand - Warsaw November 26 Jaworznicka Kickboxing League - Jaworzno November (date to be determined) - Battle of Warriors - Krakow December 3 Polish Oriental Kickboxing Championship December 12 Warsaw Grand - Warsaw December (date to be determined) - Battle of Warriors FINAL GALA - Krakow

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Poland

The Academy of Education of Polski Związek Kickboxingu reports that in February-March 2021 there will be a course for Sports Instructors in Kickboxing in Krakow.

This project is an authorized and only way to obtain legal coaching licences within the structures of the Polish Kickboxing Association recognised by the Ministry of Sports.

The course will be conducted in the weekend system on dates: February 20th Saturday g. 12.00 and 21 February Sunday g. 9.00 February 27th Saturday g. 12.00 and 28 February Sunday g. 9.00 March 06th Saturday g. 12.00 and 07 March Sunday g. 9.00 Detailed information is provided by the PZKB Office.

Polish Grand Prix in Kickboxing: a great start to the kickboxing season in Mińsk Mazowiecki

In accordance with all applicable restrictions, limits and guidelines, during the national quarantine, the first competition this year under the Polish Kickboxing Association - Polish Grand Prix took place in Minsk Mazowiecki.

A total of 382 players from 38 clubs took part in the tournament in the following disciplines: kick light, light contact, point fighting and fights with

foam sticks for the youngest.

Seniors (under 23) and members of the national team, juniors, cadets and children competed.

Conference and workshops of club coaches of PZKB 2021 In the first quarter of 2021, GDPB plans to organize conferences and workshops for union club coaches.

The conference will take place meetings of coaches with union authorities on which the main topics will be m. in. in. directions for further development of our organization, issues of running sports associations, organizing competitions and other club events, and contacting local authorities.

As part of the workshops there will be lectures on selected sports theory issues and practical activities. The conference and workshops will aim at professionalizing and harmonizing training in individual fight formulas in clubs, exchanging views, further integration of the coaching environment and organisational strengthening of GDP.

A detailed conference plan, place and date will be announced soon if this new initiative meets positive reception and opinions will enter the GDP training calendar permanently.

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Poland

Polish national Championship

K-1 Style - pro/am

Nowa Sól, 26-27.03.2021

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Russia

05.01.2021.

In two cities of the Republic of Tatarstan began training and training training training camps of the region. The main direction of the training camp was preparation for the first tournaments in 2021

Winter training in the disciplines of light contact and point fighting are starting in Moscow region on January 11.

The training hold under the leadership of the head coach and senior coaches of the Russian kickboxing team.

Competitors prepared for January 20, then will be all-Russian competitions Moscow open 2021. in the village of Lucinsky.

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January 16-17 was held a long-awaited meeting of young kickboxers from different corners of the Primorsky Krai in the walls of the Olympian Sports Complex at the Championship and Championship of the Primorsky Krai in Vladivostok.

Athletes have shown their skills in the discipline of "light contact". Despite the fact that this form of kickboxing prohibits strong, accentuated hand and foot strikes, the battle rate is higher due to these restrictions. The victory is awarded to the athlete who demonstrated the best technique of hand and feet and, therefore, with more blows.

Director of the kickboxing federation of Primorsky Krai Artyom Olegovich Yanchev opened the competition with a welcome word, noting that there are no obstacles for real athletes, even due to weather difficulties.

More than 140 competitors took part in the Championship of the Primorsky Krai. The kickboxers showed excellent results, also selected prizes were awarded:

On January 14, the President of the Russian Kickboxing Federation and VRIO attended educational and training meetings based on AMACS "New Istra" led by the head coach of the Russian national team Mikhail Gerasimov and senior coaches of the national team Polyakov Vyacheslav and Eduard Ostrovsky.

During the visit, FKR President Vadim Vladimirovich Ukrainians and VRIO Berezkin Alexander Nikolaevich met with athletes during a general conversation,

where the team's preparation and first starts were discussed in 2021

Very soon, the All-Russian Moscow open competitions will take place on this base, which will include disciplines this year: K1, full contact, light-contact, point fighting and forms. The tournament will be held from January 20 to January 23

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On Saturday, January 16, Honored Master of Sports of Russia, World and Europe champion, 9- time Russian champion, World Cup winner Panyan Emin held a master class at a training event in c. Luchinskoe on the eve of the all-Russian tournament MOSCOW OPEN and shared his experience with young athletes.

Championship of the Nizhny Novgorod region in kickboxing disciplines: Full contact and K1 held on January 23-24 in the sports hall Nizhny Novgorod Stadium.

The competition was held without spectators.

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Championship of the Primorsky Krai in full contact and low-kick were held in the city. Lesozavodsk from January 21 to 24.

255 seaside kickboxers fought for championship titles and the right to join the seaside team, which will soon perform at zonal competitions

The grand opening was attended by the Deputy of the Legislative Assembly of the Primorye Territory Yulia Valeryevna Marchenko, the president of the Primorsky Krai kickboxing Federation, a member of the Public Chamber of Primorsky Krai, Chairman of the Fathers Council with the child's rights commissioner in the Primorsky region Viktor Nikolaevich Tarabarin, representatives of the administration and duma of the Lesozavodsky city district, representatives Sports community and the best athletes are Primorye kickers.

Deputy of the Legislative Assembly of the Primorsky Krai Yulia Valeryevna Marchenko not

only congratulated athletes and coaches on the opening of the Championship, but also fulfilled an honorary mission - presented to the President of the Primorsky Krai Kickboxing Federation Viktor Nikolaevich Tarabarin the honorary diploma of the Legislative Assembly of the Primorsky Krai for her long-standing, high achievements in professional activities and active participation in the public life of the Primorsky Krai.

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Moscow Open - 21-24 January - K1, full cobtact, light contact, point fighting, forms

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On January 21, the Presidium of "FKR"! On the agenda was many questions and work plan of the Federation for 2021! Mikhail Gerasimov's presented program on the development of "FKR", decided to consider it at an extraordinary assembly, which will take place on March 17, 2021.

Presidium was attended by the champion of the

World among professionals, the governor of the r. Kalmykia-Hasikov Batu Sergeevich who provided the project of the Development Programme of the Federation of kickboxing of Russia and expressed his readiness to provide direct participation in measures of state support and financial development of Russian Federation!

 The championship and championship of Stavropol region took place on January 29-31 in the city of Kislovodsk, and held in the disciplined of full contact, low-kick, K1, light contact and forms.

Unfortunately, at the request of the Ministry of Sports of the SK and Rospotrebnadzor, guests from neighboring regions wasnt invited.

On January 28-31, Suzdale hosted the traditional  Golden Ring kickboxing tournament in full contact and light contact disciplines.

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Championship of the city Simferopol kickboxing took place on January 30, 2021

Following the results of the competition, the sports team of the city will be formed. Simferopol kickboxing for 2021

Tournament, was held in disciplines: K1; Full contact; Low-kick; Light contact; Pointfiting.

Next tournaments of Russian Kickboxing Federation

 From February 5 to 8 in Surgut will host the Championship of the Hunty-Mansi Autonomous District - Ugra Kickboxing in the full contact discipline (all age categories)

The Championship of St. Petersburg and Northwestern Federal District of Russia will be held on February 11-14 in low-kick, full-contact and point fighting disciplines. 

On February 11-14, the Moscow Open Championship in Disciplines: K1 and full contact.

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Serbia

The Kickboxing Association of Belgrade is on Saturday, January 23, 2021. held a regular annual Assembly where awards for sports achievements were given to competitors and coaches in 2020.

The Assembly also considered the financial reports, the proposal of the competition calendar for 2021, but also other proposals of the members.

Awards for the best pioneer, cadet, junior and senior: Pioneer: Aleksa Popović from Kickboxing Club "B-Gym" Batajnica Cadet: Miroslav Majstorović from KBK “Voždovac” Junior: Strahinja Ivanovic from KBK "Pro Kick" Seniors: Pavle Vasilić from KBK “Vulkan” and Miljan Milivojević from KBK “Pobednik” Rewards for coaches: Coach Kristijan Pavlović from KBK "Full Contact" Belgrade was awarded a plaque for humanity and promotion of kickboxing Special awards were also given to prominent coaches Srdjan Matic (B - Gym), Milos Konstantinovic (Vozdovac) and Zoran Vasiljevic (Pro Kick). The KSF Assembly took place in a great atmosphere, with a lot of positive and constructive energy and sportsmanship, and almost all decisions were adopted unanimously.

EXTRAORDINARY ASSEMBLY OF THE KICK ASSOCIATION OF SERBIA HELD - KICK BOXING STILL WITHOUT PRESIDENT

The Extraordinary Election Assembly of the Kickboxing Association of Serbia was held on Saturday, January 30, 2021. in Kovilovo, but no new president was elected.

After the amendment of the Agenda, where it was decided not to vote for the election of a new president, the members of the Assembly first officially

dismissed the functions of the previous president Srdjan Bugarcic, which procedurally confirmed that the Assembly dismissed President Bugarcic. At the previous regular Assembly of the KBSS, the procedure of dismissal of the president was not completed and no appropriate decision was made, which is a condition for the change (deregistration) of the representatives in the Business Registers Agency. Following the suggestion of the delegates, the amendment to the Agenda was adopted and it was legally possible for the Assembly to pass the above-

mentioned Decision at this session.

This created the conditions for the implementation of a new procedure for the election of the president of the Kickboxing Association of Serbia in accordance with the Law and the Statute of the KBSS, at a new election session.

The elections will be held at the next extraordinary session of the Assembly in February. It must be pointed out, as one of the delegates at the Assembly emphasized, that kickboxing won at this Assembly. Unlike the statements that could be heard in the previous days from the media and read on social networks, which were full of inappropriate accusations and insults, the dignity and friendly atmosphere among the participants was maintained at the Assembly.

Both "currents" agreed to do the same at the next Assembly because it is in the interest of sports.

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Serbia

The ranking of clubs by success for 2020 has been announced, where the summary of the success of Serbian kickboxing clubs was achieved at the national championships in the past year.

63 clubs participated in the competitions with a total of 526 competitors. The best club is KBK Batajnica, the second place was won by KBK Nis and the third by Budo Club Senta.

Slovakia

Slovak kickboxing union, already implemeted all new WAKO rules to Slovak rules, which means that our feredation fully follow all new changes of WAKO rules also in our National league.

During January our Referee commitee lead by Michaela Kovacova, succefully held two online seminars via ZOOM for Slovak referees

and coaches.

First seminar was held in 9th of January and second was held on 23rd of January with total of 63 participants. We are planning to make one more online seminar during March for the rest of our referees and couches who cannot attend first seminars.

Next months we are planning to make Online Antidoping seminar for our athletes and coaches which will be held 20th of February.

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Spain

January 23 2021

ONLINE FEKM

First promotion of Trainers in Canary Islands. The 30 students who compose this edition will soon obtain Level I title, with fantastic organization and collaboration from the Autonomous Federation

January 26 2021

ONLINE FEKM

COURSE WITH AN INTERNATIONAL EXPERT

January 26 2021

Degree Exam of the Spanish Federation in Donosti, court presided by D. Joxe Eguzkiza accompanied by D. Jesus Aparicio, Rioja and D. Pablo Ramos, Cantabria COVID protocol and absolute seriousness. A degree is a degree, more now, that empowers to conduct the Official Trainer Course, for which the BOE indicates, it is a must have the first degree or the th Khan of the

corresponding Spanish Federation.

Degree Exam of the Spanish Federation January 30 2021

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Turkey

Turkish Kickboxing Federation Coaches and Referees License and Development Seminar was held on 3 January 2021 as the first activity of the year.

License and Development Seminar was held online via Zoom Meeting. The opening speech of the seminar was given by WAKO IF President Mr. Roy BAKER and Turkey Kickboxing Federation President and Vice-President of the WAKO IF and WAKO Europe and Mr. Salim KAYICI.

Approximately 1,000 coaches and referees attended

the seminar which was held in 3 sessions. n the seminar, the activities of the year 2021, Goals and Plans and the rules published by WAKO IF were explained to the Coaches and Referees. A follow up seminar will be held on 23 January 2021 for the seminar, which is as successful and beneficial as if it is conducted in person.

Turkish Kickboxing Federation Coach and Referee Development and License Seminar was held Online on January 23, 2021.

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Turkey

EDUCATIONAL ACTIVITIES OF TURKISH KICKBOXING FEDERATION

- Turkish kickboxing federation has been organising National Schools Kickboxing Championships every year since 5 years ago in cooperation with Turkish Ministry of National Education. These championships are held in tatami disciplines only and they contributed significantly to development of tatami disciplines in our country. We are planning to organise the championship again this year.

- Federation has been organising National Universities Kickboxing Championships every year since 6 years ago in cooperation with Turkish University Sports Federation. We have over 70 universities actively participate in our National Universities Kickboxing Championship. We are planning to organise the championship again this year.

- We are working on the organisation of aforesaid championships in cooperation with our Ministry of Health due to the Covid-19 pandemic. Dates of both championships will be announced after the approval of Ministry of Health. I will keep our committee members updated once the dates are confirmed.

- Since 6 years ago, kickboxing is an officially recognised sports by Turkish Armed Forces. Military schools in Turkey have kickboxing in their curriculum and kickboxing is taught to all military students officially under supervision of our Federation. On 26 January 2021, our Federation President Mr. Salim KAYICI visited Commander of Turkish Armed Forces School of Sports Colonel Bülent ÇENDİK at his office. In 2021, meetings were held about Kickboxing Activities and Kickboxing at Turkish Armed Forces School of Sports. Turkish Armed Forces Sports Club Chairman Colonel Serdar ASLAN also present during visit of our President Mr. KAYICI. Resat Onur

Ukraine

From this year on, the day of coach of will officially celebrate July 19.

According to the Minister of Sports of Ukraine Vadim Gutzait on his personal page, this date was chosen not by chance: July 19, 1996, the opening of the Olympics in Atlanta (USA), on which Ukraine first served as an independent team.

The Minister of Sports of Ukraine explained why the professional holiday of Ukrainian specialists preparing our athletes for the most important competitions in their lives must be: "We deeply appreciate their contribution to the development of state sports. For me personally, a coach is a respectable place, this is the person who made me who I am today". The sports community of Ukraine has

long been waiting for this step

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Ukraine

Lviv region will organize WAKO Open kickboxing tournament "Hanuman Cup"

February 6, m. Stryi, VPTU Sports Complex-8.

Participants can be athletes from 7 to 18 who practice light or full contact, low-kick or K1.

 THE SAD NEWS

Great Britain

It is with a heavy heart that we have to announce the passing of Mr Tom Hibbert MBE.

Tom was president of WAKO GB for a number of years and helped to make it the organisation that it has become. He retired in 2012 at the age of 87.

He was a truly inspirational and respected gentleman who always had time for everybody. Those that knew Tom will remember him with great fondness. Our deepest condolences go out to his family.

R.I.P. Tom Hibbert MBE 1925 - 2020

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WAKO PANAMERICA

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Brasil

Kickboxing and children

The benefits of Kickboxing have long been a part of Brasilian society and, in recent years, educators have placed the Martial Arts as one of the pillars for the formation of children and adolescents. Due to the pandemic, one of the greatest benefits of Kickboxing has been severely challenged.

Social development, children and adolescents spending all day at home, in electronic games and without contact with other children.

Brasilian Kickboxing Federation - CBKB and its Federations know that the development of the sport takes place from its number of practitioners and the sooner they start to practice, the more it will take this to your life. The child starts with a playful class and already experiences situations that he will find daily. The physical valences will be refined. The hierarchy and respect are the basis of martial arts and this is remembered daily, as: companionship, increase of self-

confidence, personal and social development.

As time goes by, play diminishes, and Kickboxing begins to evolve in a natural way. Body's development happens in childhood and kickboxing will certainly be an ally. As Kickboxing is a contemporary martial art, which enchants children because of its combination blows, the great cinema productions and its seven modalities end up being practiced by the whole family and it's not rare to see parents and children practicing together.

Balance, flexibility, development of motor coordination, increased body resistance, strengthening of the immune system, a general evolution of the physical and psychological condition, that is, the Kickboxing practiced by CBKB / WAKO members.

André Gardini 3Dan Black Belt

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Mexico

January 10.2021

Mexican Kickboxing Federation (FENAKIB) continue with the sports nutrition module, part of the Diplomadoenpsicologi adeportation with the master of sports nutrition Isra Rios, where they are learning about the importance of nutrition and its relationship to psychology, highlighting in interdisciplinary work.

Federation will continue to work on a better version of our profession.

FENAKIB has published a whole series of very interesting educational leaflets

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Panama

Wako Panam continues to move forward with prep and training seminars this new year.

Completely free seminar with the aim of continuing preparation and growing in the sporting area of all its members.

Paraguay

First Event of the year 2021. This is Kickboxing. 1st International Kickboxing Seminar, organized by the Pu ño Real Family team of Alto Paraguay.

Over 25 teams, with 98 athletes from different parts of Brazil and .

Ct Union ABC leader Danilo Willian with WGP champions Bruno Gazani and Diego Piovesan and we also had the presence of the International Referee of WAKO, Orlando Rodrigues, all together ministering an extraordinary 4-hour class of training and learning.

Event was chanced by CBKB and also WAKO Pan led by Gran Master Paulo

Zorello.

With coverage and paramedic support of the International Red Cross agency Paraguay-CDE.

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United States of America

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WAKO ASIA

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Asia

OCA POSTPONES 6TH ASIAN INDOOR AND MARTIAL ARTS GAMES The Olympic Council of Asia announces that the 6th Asian Indoor and Martial Arts Games to be held in Bangkok and Chonburi Province in Thailand from 21st to 30th of May 2021 have been postponed.

The OCA released a statement on January 14 to say that the situation regarding the global COVID-19 pandemic, travel restrictions and health protocols around the continent had brought about the postponement.

The new dates of the OCA’s 6th Asian Indoor and Martial Arts Games will be from 10th to 20th of March 2022.

The decision was made by the OCA after an in-depth discussion between the Olympic Council of Asia, the Thailand National Olympic Committee, and the 6th Asian Indoor and Martial

Arts Games Organizing Committee.

The decision aims at serving the common interests of all related National Olympic Committees and ensuring the safety and health of the athletes and all relevant participants. Olympic Council of Asia

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India

January Report 2021

The ongoing “Online WAKO India Kickboxing Training / Education Pathway Program “has completed 8 months in a row and moving strongly. This program has done so much for our Athletes / Coaches / Officials to cope up with the fitness routine in order to meet our set target in this calamity scenario. The lessons are focused

on building, fostering and upgrading not only the seniors but also the new talent across the country. WAKO India has continuously monitored the growth and the confidence level in all the participants since this platform provides equal opportunity to everyone to train the other members of the group also. It has been observed the significance of the training program has increased amongst the members and so is the participation level. WAKO India President Mr. Santosh Kumar

Agrawal added his remarks for the members who are maintaining the interest in the sport and taking it to the new height.

Foremost all WAKO Family congratulates Mr. Santosh K Agrawal for getting re- elected as the WAKO India President for the consecutive term, i.e., 2021-2025. The Extraordinary General Assembly (EGA) was held on 9th January 2021 at 18.30 hrs virtually on Zoom platform. The election was conducted in the presence of WAKO World President, Mr. Roy Baker as Special

Guest, Vice President WAKO (IF), Mr. Salim Kayici, Observer of the EGA and Chairman – Technical Committee WAKO (IF), Mr. Romeo Desa, Technical Supervisor of the EGA. Mr. S Udaya Sagar, Advocate Supreme Court of India also supervised the EGA as an Independent Attorney.

On becoming the President, Mr. Agrawal has notified that Team India will be giving its best efforts for the preparation to compete at the International Level. He thanked Mr. Baker, Mr. Desa and Mr. Kayici for all the support and backing the team’s effort on every occasion. He acknowledged and praised the members of WAKO India for the diligent work. Coming together is a beginning, Keeping together is progress and Working together is success he added.

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Apart from EGA, WAKO India Kickboxing Federation's “Annual General Meeting (AGM)” was held on 23rd January 2021 at Zoom platform. It was chaired by the WAKO India President Mr. Santosh Kumar Agrawal himself and was attended by the State/UT's Presidents and General Secretaries. The meeting was a success where the President submitted his Annual Report for the year 2019-20. It was a detailed presentation to all the members and the given agenda was

discussed for uplifting the Federation. Members participated in high spirits and conveyed their ideology Infront of everyone. It was a good and healthy discussion which will lead to the benefit of WAKO India. It was great to see the members enthusiasm in putting up their views to redefine the kickboxing .

WAKO India also organized meeting of Executive Board Members on 11th January 2021 to discuss about current situation and make necessary arrangements towards the development of Kickboxing sport in INDIA.

Ms Pooja Harsha a member of Women’s in Sports Committee WAKO attended the Virtual meeting of WAKO Women Committee where they discussed promoting more women in kickboxing, in refereeing and in sport politics. The focus was preparation of the WAKO Women in sport Conference with significant lecturers which will contribute to these goals.

Last but not the least it was a month of roller coaster ride from the campaigning to the elections, from upgrading the members to revamping the system – it had everything. January was accomplished as yet another successful month for WAKO India Kickboxing Federation with extraordinary effort in uplifting the standard of the game and Redefining Kickboxing Sport in India.

26.01.21 Indian International Medalist Mr. Hame Shaniah Suiam getting an award on Republic Day for outstanding achievement in Kickboxing from Hon'ble Chief Minister Shri Conrad K Sanga, Meghalaya State Govt.

Best wishes to him and entire team of WAKO India Meghalaya State.

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President of WAKO India Mr Santosh K Agrawal was invited for the Republic Day Program at Delhi Public School, Greater Faridabad.

It was a great opportunity to meet Hon'ble President of Indian Olympic Association (IOA), International Hockey Federation & Member of International Olympic Committee (IOC), Dr Narinder Dhruv Batra jee.

After the success of the very first Indian Open 2020, we could'nt repeat the same in 2021 due to covid19.

Now that the situation is improving and we hope to get rid of the pandemic soon. We are glad to launch the poster of 2nd Indian Open International Kickboxing Tournament from 9-13 February 2022.

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Singapore

Pioneer run of Youth Kickboxing Class – 5 December 2020

Kickboxing Federation of Singapore launched the pioneer run of the Youth Development program!

Kickboxing Federation of Singapore joining WAKO IF Development Committee Meeting

Kickboxing Federation of Singapore is privileged to be represented by President, Mr Jason Lim and Secretary, Miss Valencia Yip during the WAKO IF Development Committee Meeting.

We were impressed by the topics discussed and the plans and ideas contributed by members to spur the development of Kickboxing globally.

We are indeed thankful to the Committee Chairman and 1st Vice President, Mr Espen Lund for the opportunity to join hands with WAKO to contribute towards the development of the sport globally.

Live Podcast called ‘ConVALsation’ – with Manuel Nordio and Yvonne – 19 Dec 2020 ConVALsation is an online video-podcast which interviews people from all over the globe and provides a platform for interesting guests to share their experiences.

An initiative started by Kickboxing Federation of Singapore Secretary, Miss Valencia Yip, it has quickly grown.

We were privileged to interview world- renowned kickboxing coach, Manuel Nordio and his partner, Yvonne for episode 26 of ConVALsation.

Manuel shared his journey into Kickboxing since 1983 and how he has been privileged to be part of WAKO, to grow the sport of Kickboxing in Italy.

His partner Yvonne, shared her thoughts on Kickboxing as a newcomer, and how kickboxing helps her to adopt an active and healthy lifestyle.

This episode of ConVALsation garnered 500 views online!

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Engagement Session with pioneer affiliate club, Cobra Fight Gym – 18 December 2020 As Singapore approaches Phase 3, Kickboxing Federation of Singapore has started to reach out to our member clubs - to engage with them physically - to learn and to better understand their challenges and need moving forward into 2021.

Kickboxing Federation of Singapore caught up with pioneering member Cobra Fight Gym.

Kickboxing Federation of Singapore thanks Cobra Fight Gym for the engagement and the support rendered.

Meeting with President, Roy Baker – 22 December 2020

Kickboxing Federation of Singapore is thankful for the guidance from President, Mr Roy Baker.

Matters discussed include the following: 1. Singapore’s 2021 calendar of activities 2. Development of Kickboxing in Singapore

Interview with Straits Times - Singapore's Biggest Newspaper Publication – 28 December 2020 President of Kickboxing Federation of Singapore, Mr Jason Lim, was featured in Straits Times, Singapore’s biggest newspaper publication.

Since Mr Jason’s appointment into the WAKO IF Development Committee, the local newspaper publication was interested to feature Mr Jason as he is the 1st ever Singaporean, Southeast Asian and East Asian person to serve on the committee.

We are proud and extremely delighted to have the support of WAKO IF as they acknowledged the tireless efforts of Kickboxing Federation of Singapore to develop the sport of Kickboxing in Singapore.

We are honoured to have WAKO President Roy Baker share in his words: “Jason has contributed remarkably towards the development of the sport of Kickboxing in Singapore. He has done a tremendous amount of work and created socially-inclusive projects which touched many lives. This appointment is our affirmation towards his work and strongly believe that his insights will be highly beneficial in our future projects.”

We are honoured to have WAKO 1st Vice President Espen Lund share in his words: “I am inspired by the work that Kickboxing Federation of Singapore is doing, especially their work with People with Parkinsons’ (PwPs). KFS has created and developed structured training programs for their projects, and I would like to tap on their expertise to strengthen the frameworks of our future developmental programs.”

We look forward to taking the development of the sport to the next level in Singapore, regionally and globally!

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Singapore

Meeting with President Roy Baker – 27 January 2021

KFS updated Roy about the state of affairs in Singapore and planned for the further development for 2021.

Meeting with CoachSG, Singapore’s coaching department, to elevate the level of Kickboxing Coaching in Singapore

KFS met with CoachSG, Singapore’s Sport Coaching department, to discuss matters relating to coaching syllabus and structure.

We took the opportunity to improve on our coaching syllabus, as part of our periodic review, to ensure that the KFS coaching syllabus is up-to-date with SportSG’s framework.

Pioneering club of Kickboxing Federation of Singapore (WAKO Kickboxing Singapore), Active Red has done a tremendous amount of work and created socially-inclusive projects using Kickboxing. Active Red has used Kickboxing to touch many lives in different positive ways

From People with Parkinson (PwP) and this year, to Stroke Survivors, Active Red has proven that #Kickboxing is an amazing and fun sport to support these groups of the community in leading a better quality of life!

Active Red is happy and delighted to continue to share the benefits of Kickboxing Training with the communities in 2021 and beyond.

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Syria

The Syrian Arab Kickboxing Federation held the Kickboxing championships in both women and men divisions!

The Syrian Arab Kickboxing Federation held the Kickboxing championships in both women and men divisions from 7 to 9 January 2021 in respect of all protocole

measurement of COVID 19.

All compétitions were suspended due to CODVID 19 pandemic for long time and this was the first time after two years that Kickboxing competition took place in Aleppo.

Mr. Mohamed Khreis the President of Syrian Arab Kickboxing Federation declared: We thank the Syrain Arab Sport Ministry and Olympic Committe support for organisation

of our competition as well as the Asian Kickboxing Confederation.

The President Khreis added: More than 117 players participated representing all Governorates, the army and the police and a full audience were in attendance.

Tajikistan

Recruitment for the kickboxing group (WAKO)

Time: Mon., Wed., Fri. 15:30-17:00 Coach: Bafoev Abdurashid Black belt winner in taekwon-do / Tatiana kickboxing champion, K-1 / Bashkiria champion and Pankration Cup medalist

Time: Mon., Wed., Fri. 19:00-20:30 Coach: Bafoev Abdubashir 2-time kickboxing champion / 2-time Bashkiria Kickboxing champion / Eurasian University Kickboxing champion / 3-time Bashkiria MMA champion / Bashkiria champion in and Boxing / Southern Ural Cup prize winner / Boxing prize winner of the Republic of Tajikistan / Grappling winner of the

Republic of Tajikistan

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ARAB FEDERATION COVER PAGE

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WAKO Arab Federation

Seminars and meetings all around the globe. This was the seminar on January 23rd for Arab countries leaded by Technical director Romeo Desa about new registration system in WAKO.

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WAKO OCEANIA

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Australia

KICKBOXING COACHING EDUCATION PROGRAM Launches January 2021 (JAN 16 4-7pm, Jan 17 4-7pm)

As a NSO for Kickboxing, we have worked and developed a education based program for our Coaches and Assistant Coaches. This program is delivered by Mr. Ed Bavelock and is built and developed to the NCAS and SPORTAUSTRALIA Framework and content. This Course is the first stage of 3 stages in Coaching Education Program for Kickboxing in . 3 Stages of learning Community Level Coaching (Bronze Level) National Level Coaching (Silver Level) International Level Coaching (Gold Level)

This is NOT a BLACK belt or technical curriculum, this is a Coaching Education Program and aligns our Industry standards with Main Stream Sports like , Netball, Rugby etc.

As a NSO we will be rolling out this education program and over the next 12 months, A BRONZE level Certification will be mandatory for existing WAKO Clubs and New Members will be expecting to obtain within 6 months of Joining in 2022.

This is a huge STEP for IMPROVING our industry and we open this program to ALL COMBAT Coaches and assistant Coaches in Australia to access, regardless of political or federations they belong to.

We are excited to work with SPORT AUSTRALIA and have all certified Coaches listed as CERTIFIED COACHES for Kickboxing on the Sport Australia Database.

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Australia

New Zealand

DATE ANNOUNCEMENT COMING ON FEBRUARY

PROPOSED DATE MAY 7th & 8th Confirming soon

GRASSROOTS

First event for 2021 od New Zealand Kickboxing Federation is grassroots on the 27th of February

Competition will start off with light contact at 12pm then at 6pm K1 and MMA .

Door sales only $20.00 kids $10.00 115 Diana Drive Glenfield.

Come and support the up and coming fighters.

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WAKO AFRICA

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Libya

The Libyan Federation of Kickboxing and similar sports will hold several events during the next February and March

1- The Kickboxing Championship - for the regions of Libya: Western - Central - Eastern

2- Refresher arbitration course - for the regions of Libya: Western - Central - Eastern in the updates and new leaders of Wako

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WAKO RULES COVER PAGE

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NEW WAKO RULES - WHAT'S NEW

This is a new section in the WAKO Newsletter.

As you know, the WAKO Board has accepted the new WAKO rules and they have been published on the official website. They take effect on January 1st 2021. There is a lot of news, and in this column, we will present you the news and give you a comment and explanations.

New Members' Registration Platform - WAKO Sport ID

Introduction and explanation

Several notifications and letters were sent to the addresses of all national federations about the introduction of the new WAKO Sport ID registration system on the RSportz platform.

It is very important that this registration process is completed before the first WAKO international competitions in 2021, because according to the new WAKO Rules, all international competitions must be organized through the Sport Data system, and for national federations, clubs and individual members to register as participants, they must have a WAKO Sport ID - which they will receive when registering via the RSportz platform.

Registration process

Together with RSportz, we have created the path we must all follow to ensure we achieve the objective of registering all our members into the database. All the following steps must be completed for national federation to have complied with our request.

1. Nominate responsible person for registration (NRP) for your federation, they will be in permanent contact with Mt. Tomas Vesely from Rsportz.

2. Make contact with RSportz ([email protected]). He will organize a Zoom call with President, Secretary General and NRP and explain all the steps necessary to complete the task.

3. You will be asked to complete a short 5 field CSV file of your club's information.

4. Once this is done you will be asked to complete a CSV file of all your members. (During this period RSportz will set up the National Federation website containing all the club & member data in preparation for the following steps)

5. Together and with the guidance of RSportz create your memberships and payments. RSportz will help set up the payment system.

6. Test the system by making a few payments. Once this is complete you will be able to register athletes, coaches and officials for competitions.

All 6 steps must be completed to comply with our objectives. We have regular weekly meetings with RSportz where we will review each countries progress.

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New WAKO Rules

LINK TO THE NEW WAKO RULES

We invite all members to visit the official WAKO website and download all new rules and all new forms that are valid and in force from January 1st 2021.

DOWNLOAD DOWNLOAD DOWNLOAD

DOWNLOAD DOWNLOAD DOWNLOAD

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To all recipients of this Newsletter

Please forward this newsletter to all members of your federation.

All news and short reports with pictures and posters of your sports activities sent to:

Marijana Pelevic - WAKO Media Officer: [email protected]

Romeo Desa - WAKO Technical Director: [email protected]

If you want to receive Newsletter in your inbox – please, send us your e-mail address.

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